Railway-car card-clip



(No Model.)

IE' ROBINSON RAILWAY GAR CARD CLIP.

Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

FRANK ROBINSON, OF OLIMAX, MICHIGAN.

RAI LWAY-CAR CARD-CLI P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,899, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed J une 27, 1889.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK ROBINSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Climax, in the county of Kalamazoo and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Car Card-Clips or Label-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters and figures refer to like parts in all the views.

The objects and advantages accruing to the use of this invention will become obvious to those skilled in the art by inspection of the drawings, of which` Y Figure I is a front elevation showing a carlabel in proper position on the door or side of a railway-car, where it is securely held by means of my novel card-clip or label-holder. Fig. II is a side view of the same with the label in place, and showing in dotted lines the holder-clip open ready for insertion of a label. Fig. III is a modified form of the same, provided with a central label rest or stop; and Fig. IV represents the central portion of the same in side section, detached.

A is the frame of the clip or label-holder, and it is made of a single piece of spring-wire bent upon itself in form of an irregular parallelogram, and of a size suitable for holding the label to the door or side of a railway-car, as clearly shown in the drawings. In forming this novel holder-frame the extreme ends ofthe wire composing it are bent at right angles and sharpened, so as to form a pair of spurs, which, when the frame is completed and placed in position on the car, are situated centrally at the top of the said holder, while the adjacent portions of the wire are wound around each other and bent upward and outwardly, so as to form a convenient ngerdift or handle for opening the label-holder clip, the twin spurs a a being seen situated immediately on either side of said handle h. The outward downwardly-extendin g parallel sides of the frame A should be about twice the vertical width of the label O, which its clip grasps, (see Figs. I and II,) while their said sides there bend inwardly or toward each other, forming semicircles, and then rise ver tically to a nearly central point, where small coils of the same furnish suitable apertures Serial No. 315,768. (No model.)

for the engagement of fastening-screws D D, for securing the frame A to the door or side of a car. So, also, in the form represented in Figs. III and IV a central card-stop or labelrest b may be provided, whereby the label C may be instantly and correctly placed by the most heedless operator, while twin staples s s may be provided as safety guards and guides for the spring clip-arms A, provided these staples are properly placed below the space reserved for the insertion of the label-that is, about as low as the fastening-screws D D; otherwise the utility and peculiar advantages accruing to the use of my invention would be largely neutralized, as is evident.

By this simple and effective device a rail way-car may be supplied with a fixture that seems indispensable, providing a full and free exhibition of the entire label, without objectionabie features, and doing away with that unsightly disiguration of the car by nailing, now and heretofore universal because of the unreliable, expensive, and cumbersome contrivances hitherto suggested for this purpose, sometimes patented, but never employed.

Having thus fully illustrated and described my invention and pointed out some oi its advantages, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A railway-car card clip or holder constructed of a single piece of wire bent to form spring-arms projecting downward from its lower corners, loops or coils at the upper ends of said arms for the reception of fastening means, and a finger-lift at the upper end of the holder.

2. A railwaycar card-clip or label-holder constructed of a single piece of wire bent to form spring-arms projecting downward from its lower corners, a label-rest projecting upward from thelower side of the holder, and a nger-lift at the upper side of the holder.

3. A railway-car card-clip or label-holder constructed of a single piece of wire bent to form spring-arms projecting downward from its lower corners, coils for the reception of fastening means at the inner ends of said arms, a label-rest projecting upward from the lower side of the holder, and a linger-lift and a spur or spurs at the upper side of the holder.

4. A railway-car card-clip or label-holder IOO constructed of et single piece of Wire, the eX- treme en ds of which are sharpened and bent to form spurs, and the adjacent portions Wound around each other and bent upward and outward to form a linger-lift or handle, the said Wire being also bent to form spring-arms projecting downward from its lower corners, coils or loops at the upper ends of said arms, a label-rest projecting upward from the lower side of the holder, and coils or loops at the lower corners of said label-rest.

In Atestimony that I claim the foregoing I hereunto set my hand and signature, this 10th day of June, A. D. 1889, in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK ROBINSON.

lVtnesses:

AUSTIN C. EDWARDS, MARTIN METCALF. 

